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   malted
         adj 1: of grain that has been converted into malt; "malted
                  barley" [ant: {unmalted}]
         n 1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: {malted}, {malt},
               {malted milk}]

English Dictionary: multitude by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
malted milk
n
  1. a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt, malted milk]
  2. powder made of dried milk and malted cereals
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
melted
adj
  1. changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"
    Synonym(s): melted, liquid, liquified
    Antonym(s): unmelted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meltwater
n
  1. melted snow or ice
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
militate
v
  1. have force or influence; bring about an effect or change; "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Miltiades
n
  1. Athenian general who defeated the Persians at Marathon (540-489)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
molded
adj
  1. shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"
    Synonym(s): shaped, molded, wrought
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
molded salad
n
  1. salad of meats or vegetables in gelatin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multi-ethnic
adj
  1. involving several ethnic groups [syn: multiethnic, multi-ethnic]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multidimensional
adj
  1. having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects; "multidimensional problems"; "a multidimensional proposition"; "a multidimensional personality"
    Antonym(s): one-dimensional, unidimensional
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multidimensional language
n
  1. a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension
    Antonym(s): one-dimensional language
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multiethnic
adj
  1. involving several ethnic groups [syn: multiethnic, multi-ethnic]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multitude
n
  1. a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"
    Synonym(s): battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack
  2. a large gathering of people
    Synonym(s): multitude, throng, concourse
  3. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
    Synonym(s): multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multitudinous
adj
  1. too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"
    Synonym(s): countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
multitudinousness
n
  1. a very large number (especially of people)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Malleate \Mal"le*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malleated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Malleating}.] [L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a
      hammer. See {Mall}, v. t.]
      To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Malt \Malt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Malted}: p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Malting}.]
      To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meld \Meld\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Melded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Melding}.] [G. melden to announce.] (Card Playing)
      In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score;
      as, to meld a sequence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mellitate \Mel"li*tate\, n. [Cf. F. mellitate. See {Mellitic}.]
      (Chem.)
      A salt of mellitic acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr.
      me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf.
      {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
      1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to
            liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or
            snow.
  
      2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to
            relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences;
            sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of;
            to weaken.
  
                     Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     For pity melts the mind to love.         --Dryden.
  
      Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mildew \Mil"dew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mildewed}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Mildewing}.]
      To taint with mildew.
  
               He . . . mildews the white wheat.            --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a
      soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.]
      To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by
      against and with.
  
               These are great questions, where great names militate
               against each other.                                 --Burke.
  
               The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on
               the side of the pious emperor.               --Gibbon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a
      soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.]
      To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by
      against and with.
  
               These are great questions, where great names militate
               against each other.                                 --Burke.
  
               The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on
               the side of the pious emperor.               --Gibbon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Militate \Mil"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Militated}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Militating}.] [L. militare, militatum, to be a
      soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.]
      To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by
      against and with.
  
               These are great questions, where great names militate
               against each other.                                 --Burke.
  
               The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on
               the side of the pious emperor.               --Gibbon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Militiate \Mi*li"ti*ate\, v. i.
      To carry on, or prepare for, war. [Obs.] --Walpole.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
      mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m[81]hle, OHG. mul[c6], mul[c6]n,
      Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone;
      prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth.
      malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour,
      and cf. {Moline}.]
      1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as
            grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough,
            or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a
            bone mill.
  
      2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from
            vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in
            combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a
            cider mill; a cane mill.
  
      3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  
      4. A common name for various machines which produce a
            manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material
            by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a
            sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
  
      5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by
            which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a
            cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
  
      6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in
            relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design
            in a softer metal, as copper.
  
      7. (Mining)
            (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings,
                  from which material for filling is obtained.
            (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  
      8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}.
  
      9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.
  
      {Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint},
            etc.
  
      {Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly
            from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant
            iron in the mill.
  
      {Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace.
  
      {Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of
            a mill.
  
      {Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones.
  
      {Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
  
      {Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill
            wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
  
      {Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after
            turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
  
      {Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth.
  
      {Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a
            mill.
  
      {Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by
            crushing grain between rollers.
  
      {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
            stamps.
  
      {To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or
            discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of
            knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mold \Mold\, Mould \Mould\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Molded} or
      {Moulded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molding} or {Moulding}.]
      To cover with mold or soil. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mollitude \Mol"li*tude\, n. [L. mollitudo, fr. mollis soft.]
      Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Molt \Molt\, Moult \Moult\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Molted} or
      {Moulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molting} or {Moulting}.] [OE.
      mouten, L. mutare. See {Mew} to molt, and cf. {Mute}, v. t.]
      [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, {moult}; but as the {u}
      has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as,
      bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the
      analogy by the spelling {molt}.]
      To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like,
      as an animal or a bird. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mold \Mold\, Mould \Mould\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Molded} or
      {Moulded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molding} or {Moulding}.]
      To cover with mold or soil. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Molt \Molt\, Moult \Moult\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Molted} or
      {Moulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Molting} or {Moulting}.] [OE.
      mouten, L. mutare. See {Mew} to molt, and cf. {Mute}, v. t.]
      [The prevalent spelling is, perhaps, {moult}; but as the {u}
      has not been inserted in the otherwords of this class, as,
      bolt, colt, dolt, etc., it is desirable to complete the
      analogy by the spelling {molt}.]
      To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like,
      as an animal or a bird. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multeity \Mul*te"i*ty\, n. [L. multus much, many.]
      Multiplicity. [R.] --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multidentate \Mul`ti*den"tate\, a. [Multi- + dentate.]
      Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multidigitate \Mul`ti*dig"i*tate\, a. [Multi- + digitate.]
      Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multititular \Mul`ti*tit"u*lar\, a. [Multi- + titular.]
      Having many titles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitubular \Mul`ti*tu"bu*lar\, a. [Multi- + tubular.]
      Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitude \Mul"ti*tude\, n. [F. multitude, L. multitudo,
      multitudinis, fr. multus much, many; of unknown origin.]
      1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous
            collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  
                     But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with
                     compassion on them.                           --Matt. ix.
                                                                              36.
  
      2. A great number of persons or things, regarded
            collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of
            people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
  
                     It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they
                     uttery neglect method in their harangues. --I.
                                                                              Watts.
  
                     A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on
                     high.                                                --Longfellow.
  
      3. The state of being many; numerousness.
  
                     They came as grasshoppers for multitude. --Judg. vi.
                                                                              5.
  
      {The multitude}, the populace; the mass of men.
  
      Syn: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm;
               populace; vulgar. See {Throng}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitudinary \Mul`ti*tu"di*na*ry\, a.
      Multitudinous.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a.
      1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or
            condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous
            seas.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G.
                                                                              Kennan.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous
            tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. --
            {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a.
      1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or
            condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous
            seas.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G.
                                                                              Kennan.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous
            tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. --
            {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Multitudinous \Mul`ti*tu"di*nous\, a.
      1. Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or
            condition; as, multitudinous waves. [bd]The multitudinous
            seas.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. --G.
                                                                              Kennan.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to a multitude. [bd]The multitudinous
            tongue.[b8] --Shak. -- {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly}, adv. --
            {Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness}, n.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   multitask n.   Often used of humans in the same meaning it has
   for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once
   (but see {thrash}).   The term `multiplex', from communications
   technology (meaning to handle more than one channel at the same
   time), is used similarly.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   multitasking
  
      (Or "multi-tasking", "multi-processing",
      "multiprogramming", "concurrency", "process scheduling") A
      technique used in an {operating system} for sharing a single
      processor between several independent jobs.   The first
      multitasking operating systems were designed in the early
      1960s.
  
      Under "{cooperative multitasking}" the running task decides
      when to give up the CPU and under "{pre-emptive multitasking}"
      (probably more common) a system process called the
      "{scheduler}" suspends the currently running task after it has
      run for a fixed period known as a "{time-slice}".   In both
      cases the scheduler is responsible for selecting the next task
      to run and (re)starting it.
  
      The running task may relinquish control voluntarily even in a
      pre-emptive system if it is waiting for some external {event}.
      In either system a task may be suspended prematurely if a
      hardware {interrupt} occurs, especially if a higher priority
      task was waiting for this event and has therefore become
      runnable.
  
      The scheduling {algorithm} used by the scheduler determines
      which task will run next.   Some common examples are
      {round-robin} scheduling, {priority scheduling}, {shortest job
      first} and {guaranteed scheduling}.
  
      Multitasking introduces {overheads} because the processor
      spends some time in choosing the next job to run and in saving
      and restoring tasks' state, but it reduces the worst-case time
      from job submission to completion compared with a simple
      {batch} system where each job must finish before the next one
      starts.   Multitasking also means that while one task is
      waiting for some external event, the {CPU} to do useful work
      on other tasks.
  
      A multitasking operating system should provide some degree of
      protection of one task from another to prevent tasks from
      interacting in unexpected ways such as accidentally modifying
      the contents of each other's memory areas.
  
      The jobs in a multitasking system may belong to one or many
      users.   This is distinct from {parallel processing} where one
      user runs several tasks on several processors.   {Time-sharing}
      is almost synonymous but implies that there is more than one
      user.
  
      {Multithreading} is a kind of multitasking with low
      {overheads} and no protection of tasks from each other, all
      threads share the same memory.
  
      (1998-04-24)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Multi-tasking Program for Microcomputers
  
      (MP/M) An {operating system}, written by
      {Gary Kildal}, very similar to {CP/M}, also written by Kildal.
      MP/M allowed {virtual terminals}, each of which could execute
      an {application} while another terminal was called to the
      screen with a special key combination.
  
      See also {Control Program for Microcomputers}.
  
      (1996-09-08)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   multithreaded
  
      {multithreading}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   multithreading
  
      Sharing a single {CPU} between multiple tasks (or
      "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to
      switch threads.   This is accomplished by sharing as much as
      possible of the program execution environment between the
      different threads so that very little state needs to be saved
      and restored when changing thread.
  
      Multithreading differs from {multitasking} in that threads
      share more of their environment with each other than do tasks
      under multitasking.   Threads may be distinguished only by the
      value of their {program counters} and {stack pointers} while
      sharing a single {address space} and set of {global
      variables}.   There is thus very little protection of one
      thread from another, in contrast to multitasking.
  
      Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain
      multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can
      hide {latency} by keeping the processor busy after one thread
      issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent
      instructions in that thread depend.
  
      A {light-weight process} is somewhere between a thread and a
      full process.
  
      {TL0} is an example of a threaded machine language.
      {Dataflow} computation (E.g. {Id} and {SISAL}) is an extreme
      form of multithreading.
  
      (1997-12-23)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MultiTOS
  
      (MTOS) A new version of {TOS}.   MultiTOS's
      main advantage was support for {pre-emptive multitasking} and
      {memory protection}.   It also supported the latest (and far
      superior) versions of {GEM}.   MultiTOS was supplied with the
      Falcon030 range of computers from {Atari}.
  
      It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS {kernel} was based
      heavily on the {freeware} OS {MinT} which was developed long
      before Atari got MultiTOS working.
  
      (1997-01-10)
  
  
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